, 1887-11-22
TELEaRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

The Liverpool steamship Douro has
been wrecked off Cape Finisterre and thir-
teen persons were drowned.
The Athletic club has purchased Glea-
son and WEIGH, short stop aud center
fielder, from the St. Louis Browns.
Forest fires continue to rage in Western
Tennessee, Mississippi and Eastern Ar
kansas, and the damage sustained is be-
coming serious.
Jacob Schwab, of New York City, a
well known importer of laces, was in
stantly killed yesterday by falling down an
elevator shaft in his warehouse.
The steamer Telephone burned at Port
land, Oregon. Everyone on board vas
saved except one drunken nan. who was
badly burned and will probably die.
1t is believed that DeGiers has asked
to be allowed to resign the position of
prime minister upon the completion of
twenty-five years of service this winter.
A compulsory education bill is be-
fore the Mexican congress which pro-
vides vigilance committees, whose
duty it is too see that the children attend
school.
An adequate force of London police
were present in Trafalgar square Sunday,
to preserve order, and no speaking oc-
CURED, although some 5000 people were
present.
The Canadian fisheries department at
tempted to ship a carload of live Holsters
FROM the Atlantic to the Pacific, but the
captive Holsters were frozen in the traps
and the project was abandoned.
Ernest Kuhn, the anarchist who was
-.1.ol - Gotpr1au pYuht in Naw York
for ~assaulting a reporter, was put under
1000 bonds for his good behavior.
Failing 20 secure this he will be locked up
up for SIX months.
Capt. Schmidt, of the Texas state
rangers, whose company has been scour-
ing the Rio Grande frontier for the past
two months, writes to Governor Ross that
they have killed and captured thirteen
bandits infesting the frontier.
The Scottish Miners Federation have
resol ed to work but five days a week and
eigh, hours per day. They have also
agreei to proclaim a national strike in
Scotland if 4. Graham, NJ. P,
who was arrested during the London dis
turbance of Sunday, the 18th inst. is sent
to prison.
The United States attorney for Wash
ington Territory has advised the acting
commissioner the general land office
that the supreme court OF that territory
has granted the injunction asked for by
the general land Office to restrain the
Northern Pacific Railroad company from
illegally cutting timber on the public
lands.
United States Circuit Judge Hardee
has issued a restraining order directed
against the striking switchmen in the
yards of the Southern Pacific Railroad
company at Houston, Texas, preventing
them from interfering with the property
of the company and from ~intimidating
persons who apply to the company for
employment.
The secretary of the state on the 18th
inst directed the American minister at
Berlin to communicate to the emperor of
Germany to cordial sympathy of the
president and citizens of this country in
the serious illness of the crown prince.
The German charge d affairs at the CAPT
tai yesterday transmitted to the state
department a reply thereto, stating1 that
the emperor was deeply moved by the
messaV" of sy mpathy.
The government receipts during the
present month were $40, 6S5, 346; expend-
lures, $25, 349. $40; deficiency, 81, 664.-
$50. The expenditures include Sl8, 2S3,-
TAT for pensions. The net gold in the
treasury up to yesterday was S207, 1885,
900, an increase of nearly S., 000, 900 since
the LIST inst, and nearly $40. 000, 900 since
July /. The circulation of standard silver
dollars has increased over 81 ,000. 900
since. the LIST inst, and nearly SIS ,000, 900
since July l..